{"id":61394,"date":"2025-10-24T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61394"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:42:14","slug":"its-hard-to-find-honest-reporting-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61394","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Hard To Find Honest Reporting On This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina will now have new U.S. House of Representative districts. Most of the news articles I found about the changes made to the map focus on the idea that the Republicans redid the map to add a Republican seat. That may or may not be true, but let&#8217;s look at the before and after maps and see how they add up.<\/p>\n<p>This is the new map:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NewNCDistricts-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NewNCDistricts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"873\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NewNCDistricts-1.jpg 873w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NewNCDistricts-1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NewNCDistricts-1-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NewNCDistricts-1-500x277.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the old map:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/OldNCDistrictMap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/OldNCDistrictMap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"839\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/OldNCDistrictMap.jpg 839w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/OldNCDistrictMap-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/OldNCDistrictMap-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/OldNCDistrictMap-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which map looks gerrymandered?<\/p>\n<p>District 1 is currently represented by a Democrat. The change in the map will make District 1 a more competitive district. However, there are no guarantees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina will now have new U.S. House of Representative districts. Most of the news articles I found about the changes made to the map focus on the idea that the Republicans redid the map to add a Republican seat. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14918,625,18656],"class_list":["post-61394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gerrymandering","tag-north-carolina","tag-north-carolina-congressional-districts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61399,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61394\/revisions\/61399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}